import requests
from typing import Any, Dict


def call_api(input_json: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    response = requests.get('https://techpulse.aigenprompt.com/askstories')

    if response.status_code == 200:
        return response.json()
    else:
        return {'status_code': response.status_code, 'text': response.text}
